A break from geopolitics in this week's Irish Independent column! Hair transplants. You hit your 30s and they emerge on your radar. But what's the value-for-money case? And is there another decay we're ignoring? 🦷🪥 independent.ie/opinion/commen…

Inflation expectations of Euro Area consumers. 12 months ahead, the expectation is for 2.8% inflation, that's down from last month (3.1%), but we're still higher than February (2.6%). Tariffs are being slowly forgotten, but deadlines on the 90-day reprieve are fast approaching.

American CFOs are lowing their expectations for firm revenue and raising their expectations for input / unit costs. Almost all tariff related.

Most people born in Western Europe have won the birth lottery. We have our own problems, sure, but so much is still in our favour.

CPSMA highlight school cost crises rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

Brother Kevin Crowley, who founded Dublin's Capuchin Day Centre, has died jrnl.ie/6750017

Daniel Mulhall Agreed. As I tweeted yesterday to Alan Shatter "Personally, I would prefer a bill that restricts imports from all illegally-occupied territories if produced by the occupiers, including the Golan Heights, but also, Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimea, and its Russian-occupied

A key question for all #aras25 candidates is what pets, if any, they're taking with them into the new job

There little love in saying a good thing about Qatar's role in the 🇮🇱🇵🇸 conflict. Especially given their own human rights record. But brokering even 9 weeks (1 plus 8) of ceasefire is significant given how bloody this conflict is. Hope the proposed 60 day one goes ahead.

Compared to Ireland's 2025 budget. Night and Day.

Fiscal struggles on both sides of the Atlantic (🇬🇧🇺🇸) but Ireland is lucky with our surpluses. We'll miss them if they go.

Two weeks until the MacGill Summer School. MacGill Summer School. Grateful to be speaking on a panel with Sorcha Pollak Gary Gannon TD Claire Hanna and Lata Sharma Tickets from macgillsummerschool.com

I'm on Brendan O’Connor this morning from 11am with Mick Clifford Brigid Laffan and DrMáireT. Presidency, tariffs, budget 26, third level fees, among many of the possible issues.

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The Augustinians had no website when Pope Leo became their global leader in 2001 — so he taught himself web design and helped build one from scratch. ilmessaggero.it/en/a_glimpse_i…

MacGill Summer School Programme just published - hopefully one more speaker to be added before 17th July - Registration Now Open: Book Tickets Online. Source: MacGill Summer School share.google/hDO3sVfhJEU8EP…

In 1937, London built 80,000 homes. Last year, it built less than half that. To find out why, I looked at two different planning applications for a four-storey block of flats from now and back then. 1937: 3 pages long. 2025: 1,250 pages long.

And the Middle East doesn't buy enough American sand